And the coast of their inheritance was Zorah, and Eshtaol, and Irshemesh,
Parallel translations
- WEB The border of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Irshemesh,
- BSB The territory of their inheritance included Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
- NKJV And the territory of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir Shemesh,
- NASB The territory of their inheritance was Zorah, Eshtaol, and Ir-shemesh,
- NLT The land allocated as their homeland included the following towns: Zorah, Eshtaol, Ir-shemesh,
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Quick answer
Dan's inheritance includes Zorah, Eshtaol, and Irshemesh. Zorah and Eshtaol would later be associated with Samson.
Overview
The territory listed lay in the fertile Shephelah near the Philistine frontier. Zorah and Eshtaol are the towns where the Spirit would later stir Samson, the Danite judge (Judges 13:25). This ordinary boundary list quietly names the stage for later acts of God's deliverance, showing how the land's geography served the unfolding story of redemption.
Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Chr 11:10And Zorah, and Aijalon, and Hebron, which are in Judah and in Benjamin fenced cities.
- Judg 13:2And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the family of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren, and bare not.
- Judg 16:31Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.
- 1 Chr 2:53And the families of Kirjathjearim; the Ithrites, and the Puhites, and the Shumathites, and the Mishraites; of them came the Zareathites, and the Eshtaulites.
- Judg 18:2And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their coasts, men of valour, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land: who when they came to mount Ephraim, to the house of Micah, they lodged there.
- Judg 13:25And the Spirit of the LORD began to move him at times in the camp of Dan between Zorah and Eshtaol.
- Josh 15:33And in the valley, Eshtaol, and Zoreah, and Ashnah,
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